Sex Differences in Adolescent High-Risk Sexual and Drug Behaviors

1 June 1998

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports

Vol. 82 (3_suppl) , 1312-1314
https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1998.82.3c.1312

Abstract

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey, administered to 545 girls and 551 boys in 18 high schools in a midwestern state during spring of 1997, indicated few statistically significant differences between boys and girls in high-risk sexual behaviors and drug use; however, significantly more girls reported engaging in several high-risk behaviors.

Keywords

SURVEY
ADOLESCENT
SPRING
HIGH RISK
YOUTH
BEHAVIORS
SEXUAL
ENGAGING
MIDWESTERN

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